A WALTHAMSTOW museum has won a national award.

The Pump House Steam & Transport Museum, in South Access Road, has won a Dorothea award for conservation and heritage.

The museum, which has now been relaunched as the Lea Valley Experience, celebrates achievements on road, rail, sea and in the air in the Lee Valley since the early 1800s.

The Dorothea awards recognise works done to improve sites of industrial and archaeological importance.